Change-maker.



F. E. FARR.

CHANGE MAKER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1914.

1,149,744. 7 Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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CHANGE-MAKER}.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Appli'catibn fi'led June 1, 1914 Serial No. 842,199.-

To alt to 710m it may concern:

Be it known-that I", FRANK. E. .FARR, acitizen of the United States, residing at Bronson, in' the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented a new anduseful Ghange-liIakenof which. the following is a specification.

One object oflthe present? invention: is to provide in a device of the type hereinafter described, a novel construction whereby the graduations on the walls-which separate the coin slots will be rendered visible between the stops which lie at -the lower ends of the coin grooves.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel bill lifting mechanisms Itisw-ithin the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertainslVith the above and other objectsin view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a top plan; Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4. is an end elevation.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a casing 1 which may be of any desired form. The casing, preferably, although not necessarily is a one piece structure and may be equipped with legs 2 carrying resilient buffers 3. At this point it may be stated that the casing 1 may be variously fashioned, with a view to ornamentation and convenience of-manipulation upon a disk, without jeopardizing the utility of the structure, so far as its coin handling functions are concerned.

The casing 1 includes an elevated platform 4: slanting downwardly from its inner end toward its outer end. In the platform l are formed a plurality of grooves, 5, 6, 7 8, 9 and 10 which conform to the slope of the platform. The grooves are of trough shape and are of different diameters. The groove indicated by the reference character 5 is adapted to receive silver dollars, the

groove 6 is used for holding half dollars, 7

quarters may be. placed in the groove 7, dimes are received in. the groove 8, the groove. 9 is for holding five cent pieces, and cents lie" in the groove 10.

The walls which separate the respective grooves are denoted by the numerals 11, 12, 14,15 and 16. The wall 11 is peculiar to the one dollar groove 5, the wall 12 lies adjacent the half dollar groove 6, the wall 11 lies adjacent the quarterv dollar groove 7, the wall 15 is individual to the dime groove 8, the walllG is used in connection with the five cent groove 9, and one side wall 17 of the casing is employed in connection with the one cent groovelO.

' At th'elower'ends of the several grooves above mentioned are located disks 18 which 14,15,16' and 17 are graduated as indicated at 19. The graduations' of the several walls may be spaced apart at various distances. In practice it will be found convenient to space the graduations 19 on the wall 11 apart sufiiciently so that between any two graduations five silver dollars may be placed. The same arrangement may be carried out on the half dollar wall 12 and on the quarter dollar wall 14. The graduations on the dime wall 15 may include one dollars worth of dimes between each pair of graduations. Fifty cents worth of five cent pieces may be included between each of graduations 19 on the five cent wall 16 and ten cents worth of pennies may be included between each pair of graduations on the one cent wall 17. By noting the notches or graduations 19, it may be ascertained at a glance, how much change is lodged in the grooves. I At the upper end of the casing 1 is located a compartment 25 which is adapted to receive bills. One wall 26 of the compartment 25 is provided with a holding means of any desired form, such, for instance, as a clamp strip 27 held'in place by means of screws 28 or the like and retaining one end of a flexible bill lifter which may be a ribbon 29. The ribbon 29 extends across the compartment 25 and passes over the upper edge of an opposed wall 31 of the compartment 25. The free end 30 of the ribbon 29 depends on the outside of the wall 31 and is provided with a handle 32 which may be a metallic rod. superposed upon the ribbon 29 and located in the compartment 25 is a pressure exerting device which may. be a weight 33 provided with a handle 34.

So far as the operation of the coin holding mechanism is concerned, it will be understood readily from what has been stated hereinbefore that the operator may easily pick out a coin of any desired denomination from the appropriate groove. It is to be observed that the disks 18 are spaced apart as shown at 35, and thus the graduations 19 are rendered visible adjacent the lower ends of the grooves, and, further, when there are but few coins in any one groove, abutting against the proper stop disk 1.8, all of such coins will be exposed to view and it will be unnecessary to look over the top of the disk 18 to ascertain whether or not there are one or more coins in the groove.

In order to remove a bill from the bill holding compartment 25, the weight 33 is lifted and the handle 32 is drawn upon, thus tightening up the ribbon 29 and lifting the bills which are in the compartment 25. If desired, the handle 32 on the end 30 of the ribbon 29 may be made heavy enough so that when the weight 33 is lifted ofi the bills, the ribbon 29 will be straightened out by the action of the handle 32, thus lifting all of the bills up into an accessible, exposed position. The clamp 27 or its mechanical equivalent provides a-means whereby one ribbon may be replaced readily by another, in case of wear.

It will be understood that the device herein disclosed is portable and may be picked up readily and placed in a safe or locker without disturbing the coin or currency.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A change holder embodying upstanding walls defining a bill-holding compartment; an inelastic, bill-lifting flexible element, the intermediate portion of which is depressed into the compartment, one end of the flexible element being secured to one wall, the flexible element passing slidably over an opposed wall; a weight attached to the other end of the flexible element and constituting means for straightening the flexible element, thereby to lift the intermediate portion; and a weight block in the compartment and resting on the intermediate portion of the flexible element to hold the same depressed against the action of the first specified weight, the Weight block substantially filling the compartment to act as a bill-shield, and whereby the block will be prevented by the walls from moving off the flexible element.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK E. FARR.

Witnesses:

A. Ln ROY LOCKE, BURT WALKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

